DeucesCracked is a poker instruction website business and an internet forum

Internet forum

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 for the discussion of poker strategy. DeucesCracked offers a fee-based service that provides access to their catalogue of poker instructional videos. As of August 2009, DeucesCracked had over 1000 videos in its catalogue. Prior to founding DeucesCracked, Jay Rosenkrantz established a personal coaching company 3bet.net. Jay, alongside industry competitor and CardRunners

CardRunners

CardRunners is an instructional poker site founded by Taylor Caby and Andrew Wiggins and formerly part-owned by Brian Townsend. CardRunners charges members a monthly fee for access to their catalog of poker instructional videos and private poker strategy forums...

 professional Taylor Caby, featured in a Forbes

Forbes

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 Video Network documentary that explored the world of online poker-coaching as an emerging business in 2007. The site is managed as an online entity with no central headquarters; the executive officers themselves work from Seattle, Southern California, and New York.

The DeucesCracked brand was founded in January 2007 with Rob "Entity" Cole, Joe "Joe Tall" Tall, Chris "DeathDonkey" Vitch, Chuck "danzasmack" Danielsson, and Jay "KRANTZ" Rosenkrantz as the executive officers. Jay Rosenkrantz is a minor celebrity from the G4TV

G4 (TV channel)

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...

 series 2 Months 2 Million

2 Months 2 Million

2 Months $2 Million was an American reality show that debuted on G4TV on August 16, 2009. The show follows four online poker players who are sharing a house in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their goal is to collectively earn $2 million dollars in two months using their own money...

. In November 2009, Jay's co-star Dani "Ansky" Stern joined Deucescracked as an executive producer after leaving a rival training site, PokerSavvyPlus. Vanessa Selbst

Vanessa Selbst

Vanessa Selbst is an American professional poker player who has made five final tables, including two heads-up semi-finals, at the World Series of Poker and won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Selbst also won the main event of the 2010 and 2011 PokerStars.net North...

, an executive producer for the site, is a WSOP bracelet holder

World Series of Poker bracelet

The World Series of Poker bracelet is considered the most coveted non-monetary prize a poker player can win. Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. Even if the victory occurred before 1976, WSOP championships are now counted as "bracelets". ...

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On 9 July 2009, DeucesCracked hosted a fund-raising Connect Four

Connect Four

Connect Four is a two-player game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping their colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid...

 competition and auction, raising money for the Lili Claire Foundation. The event was hosted at Planet Hollywood

Planet Hollywood

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 in Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

 and raised over $20,000.

In January 2010, DeucesCracked presented the Aussie Millions Academy. The series of live seminars covered several game variants and followed the Aussie Millions tournament schedule.

Since 2009, the podcast DeucePlays has been hosted by Bart Hanson, which airs weekly at DeucesCracked. The show typically includes strategy discussion and an interview with a prominent member of the poker community; several members of the site have featured as guests, as have other notable players including Tommy Angelo

Tommy Angelo (poker player)

Tommy Angelo is a professional poker player, writer, and coach. He was born in 1958 in Columbus, Ohio until he moved to Palo Alto, California in 1997. He attended Ohio State University for one year. Tommy was a career musician in the 1980s, performing rock and country on drums and piano. In...

, Matt Flynn, Terrence Chan, Andrew Robl, Justin "Boosted J" Smith

Justin Smith (poker player)

Justin "Boosted J" Smith is an American professional poker player living in Los Angeles, CA. At 21 years old, Smith has been a participant in stateside poker tournaments for less than a year due to age requirements, winning nearly $900,000 in that time span.Smith began playing poker at the age of...

, Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington is a professional poker player, best known for winning the main event world championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. He has earned one World Poker Tour title, two WSOP bracelets, and over six million dollars in tournament cashes in his poker career...

, Cole South

Cole South

Cole South is a 24 year-old professional poker player, author, and entrepreneur from Washington, DC. South is best known for his play online, though he has also made television appearances on Poker After Dark in season 5 of the show....

, Phil Galfond

Phil Galfond

Phil Galfond is an American professional poker player. Galfond won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker...

, David Peat, and Bobby Hoff

Bobby Hoff

Bobby "The Wizard" Hoff is an American professional poker player, based in Long Beach, California. According to Hoff, his nickname "The Wizard" refers to his ability to make mountains of chips disappear.-Early years:...

. Until December 2008, Bart hosted PokerRoad Radio at PokerRoad.com, but was replaced by Ali Nejad

Ali Nejad

Ali "Oliver" Nejad is an Iranian-American television poker commentator, who is best known as the off-screen announcer on NBC's Poker After Dark and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship...

. Until 3 December 2008, he also hosted a second podcast at PokerRoad.com, Cash Plays; Jeremiah Smith has hosted Cash Plays since February 2009.

Seasons

In January 2008, DeucesCracked relaunched their website. Training videos were produced in 8-part series, and each series was part of a video season. DeucesCracked has produced video series covering a variety of poker games, including, No Limit Texas Hold'Em

Texas hold 'em

Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...

, Limit Texas Hold'Em

Texas hold 'em

Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...

, Pot Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw, Stud Hi

Seven-card stud

Seven-card stud is a variant of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country. Two to eight players is common, though eight may...

, Stud 8-or-Better, and Razz

Razz (poker)

Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low . The object of Razz is to make the lowest possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against the player for low, and the ace usually plays low...

. It has also produced material covering H.O.R.S.E., 8-game, and 7-game mix. In 2010 the users of DeucesCracked nominated the video series Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment with Tommy Angelo

Tommy Angelo (poker player)

Tommy Angelo is a professional poker player, writer, and coach. He was born in 1958 in Columbus, Ohio until he moved to Palo Alto, California in 1997. He attended Ohio State University for one year. Tommy was a career musician in the 1980s, performing rock and country on drums and piano. In...

and Wayne Lively as the Best Overall Series.